How to add a product picker to the top of a dashboard

Question

I'm new to dashboards and I have a question.

I created a fairly simple dashboard that displays counts for issues that match a specific criteria.

I used the "Filter counts" gadget from "Jira Service Management" and the data shows some really cool insight into our business but the dashboard is hardcoded for one project.

Now I'm thinking that I probably want to make similar dashboards to help other project teams.  Of course I could make a copy of the dashboard and edit the copy for another project but that seems silly.... if I change the JQL behind one of the counts I'd have to remember to change it in all of the copies.

Can I add a project picker (ideally a drop down) to the top of the dashboard to allow the dashboard user to select the project that they want to see data for?

Also is there a way to add text to a dashboard to help the users understand what the counts represent other than just a label?

Thanks,

Tim

Mikael Sandberg · Answer

Have a look at the community for Atlassian Developers, https://developer.atlassian.com/, they have resources for how to get started.

So in the example I included above the simple search is one of the gadgets that Custom Charts adds to the list of available gadgets when you create your dashboard. This simple search gadget is then connected to other Custom Charts gadgets that are updated dynamically when you make changes to the simple search.

Tim Heck · Answer

Thanks for the super quick response.

So the dashboard would be an app or the project picker would be an app? I'm guessing dashboard.

I'm a programmer, can you point me towards instructions on how to write an app? Likely more effort than I am willing to put in right now but I am curious.

What I'm trying to avoid is having copies of the JQL in 40 dashboards and realizing at some point in the future that I need to tweak the JPL.

Can a user like myself create a reusable gadget that wraps the gadget that I'm using from Jira and it's JQL so that I can maintain the dashboard in only one spot?

Thanks again,

Tim

Mikael Sandberg · Answer

Hi @Tim Heck,

Welcome to Atlassian Community!

In order to do what you are looking to do you would need an app for it. I uses Custom Charts for Jira in order to make dynamic dashboards. Here is an example of how I have a simple search gadget on a dashboard that allows you to select the time period:

Have a look at the Marketplace, there are other apps that can do this as well.